shades of honey

LIBERATION

The Shades of Honey Team works to materially support the needs of various struggles of communities across Turtle Island and Globally through our open mic space that gives space, place to Black, Indigenous, People of Color.

As the Shades of Honey Community gathers in the sacred space of community through storytelling, art, healing, in so-called Denver, we honor and understand that we are on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Comanches, Arapaho, and Ute Nations alongside many other Native nations. 

We acknowledge the Indigenous peoples as the original stewards of the land and honor that through their relationship of reciprocity to the earth, we are all sustained to this day. These words are commitments to action, as well as renewal and reaffirmation of the ties that these nations have to their traditional homelands. Let us also acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory. We respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we gather. We pay our respect to them and give thanks to all Tribal Nations and the ancestors of this place. We recognize the privilege and the honor that is here in all of our ancestors being able to meet, congregate, grow and heal alongside each other as we continue the fight for liberation through storytelling. The Shades of Honey Team and Community extends our deepest solidarity, and further than that, movement to ensure the rematriation, reclamation, and renewal of the earth and all her teachings in and beyond this space.

Land Back, by any means necessary. 

Ase.